AFI Film Fest 2007: Behind the Man Behind the Scenes
Man of Cinema raises the curtain on a little-known movie giant
Who financed this for you?
It was all me. I just bought a Sony HD camera, which was wonderful. And I toted it around wherever I went.
Will it be distributed?
Ultimately, I think, the great version of this film will be on DVD, because we can have the film itself, but in addition to that, we can have however many hours we want of interviews with Pierre about many other things that we couldn’t fit into the film, as well as extended interviews with everyone else. Pierre, for instance, presided over the opening of Carl Dreyer’s Gertrude in Paris in the early ’60s. We have clips from that, where Dreyer is meeting Godard and Anna Karina and Truffaut and so on, and we have other footage like that from the time, which is great. He’s led a very rich cinematic life.
AFI Fest will screen Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema on Fri., Nov. 9, 6:30 p.m., and Sat., Nov. 10, 4:15 p.m.
Peter Bogdanovich is the Oscar-nominated director of The Last Picture Show and the new documentary Running Down a Dream: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and the author of the books Who the Devil Made It and Who the Hell’s ?in It.
Special thanks to Jason Silverman for his transcription assistance.
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